This year has been a wonderful gift, and I'm so thrilled to have such amazing women (plus a few guys!) reading the blog. You inspire me with your smart, funny and often profound comments everyday, and I can't express how grateful I am to have you here. Very much looking forward to exciting adventures in 2012. A kiss for all of you!

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Reading your blog is like a breath of fresh air each and everytime . It's sweet ,simple and inspiring . Wish you and your celebrity family ( I m sure u d get recognised anywhere if not mobbed yet) a very happy exciting adventurous new year . Almost daily reader Mansi

It has been so fun to read your blog this year! It gives me something to look forward to everyday no matter how the rest of life is going. I particularly loved the hair series and wear my hair in the French bun all the time. Thanks!

One hair tutorial suggestion: maybe some for the short-but-growing out? I love the braids and long-hair ideas, but I'm not quite there yet and I'm always looking for inspiration for creative short-to-medium hair.

As I planned my nyc-trip for march last month I really loved your city guide series!I'm thrilled to explore the Grand Central mystery, High Line, lots of good food and so much more!Thank you so much!!!

Happy New Year lovely lady! It's a daily pleasure to read your blog and I love the fact that you stay true to yourself despite your (massive!) growing popularity in the blogosphere. I don't know how you do it, but your blog seems to get better and better each year. You certainly are an inspiration for at lot of us. Meilleurs voeux pour 2012 from a fellow mama x

Happy new year, Jo! I haven't been following your blog for long but now that I've started I'm looking forward to following you well into 2012. You have some of my favorite articles and I think I'm definitely going to need to jump back into some of those old posts because they sound amazing!

I adore your blog to pieces, and the lovely advice you share about everything. I've always been curious (as I often am about New York mothers trying to balance it all) about your weekday go-to recipes. You've provided such wonderful tips on hosting and local restaurants; I've wondered about your strategies for eating "well" everyday.

Joanna! I stumbled upon your blog after a friend recommended your site to me as a daily read...and i just have to say that you inspired me to start a blog of my own! :) yay! Happy New Year! P.S. I love your first photo!!

Dear Joanne, I have followed your blog for years and I have come out of lurkdom to say thank you for your sincerity, optimism, and honesty. Reading your blog has brought me great sunshine and smiles while things were not so hot. Thank you and Happy New Year to you and your family. May all your dreams come true! and yes! more fabulous chic hair tutorials! Perhaps for gals with shoulder length hair? Or perhaps using accessories like flowers and gems for spring and soirees?

LOVE reading your blog each day. So great to read things on such great topics! I would love to see more tutorials on shoulder-length (or just above) hair...maybe how to do the cute curls, without looking like Shirley Temple! Thanks for the great thoughts on motherhood, work-mom balance and everything in between. Happy 2012!

I discovered your blog in the last year and now read it every day and recommend it to friends all the time. You have an fun and natural way of presenting the best of what the internet has to offer and I love that the posts are generally fairly short and to the point. Your blog is kind of like those amazing second hand stores that weeds through all the junk that people donate and manages to find all sorts of interesting gems. Thank you!

As for hair tutorial suggestions, I'd love some short hair options! Maybe tutorials on how to secure flowers to very short hair or fun ways to make short hair feel dressier?

To continue the topic of weddings which I LOVE, I want to share with you an amazing wedding site. Knot News is perfect for the newly engaged who are looking for inspiration. Amazing blogs, photos and ideas!

PS. I'd love if you did a series on different styles for short, shoulder length hair. I love all the ones you posted already... just makes me wish I had longer hair to do such fun things with... but my hair is too thin to grow out :(

What a wonderful year it was! Your blog is a comforting read for so many, including myself, and I love the vast spectrum of topics you cover- thank you for all the motivation and inspiration! Here's to 2012!!

I love your blog. Every Friday (at work - yikes) I look forward to your weekly wrap-up of fun things on the internet. If you were serious about suggestions for hair tutorials, I love all eight you have done so far, but I have the dreaded medium length hair. It isn't short, but it also isn't long enough to pull off these beautiful hair dos that you've done so far. Except the messy side pony, which I wear to work at least 3 days a week. Happy 2012!

P.S. Toby already has a celebrity doppelganger. I think he looks very similar to Miranda Kerr and Orland Bloom's baby.

Cheers to a great year ahead, Joanna. I have been loving your blog for years now. It's structured like a lifestyle magazine, only more personal and friendly! I look forward to more beautiful and inspiring posts from you :)

Happy New Year to you and your family! I cannot tell you how much I love following your blog and everything that's going on with you and Toby. Thanks for writing with so much sincerity. It feels like we are old friends! :)

I just love your blog. I check it everysingleday and can't wait for new posts...

Hair tutorial - I like Catherine's idea of including medium length and shorter hair. My hair is growing out after a cut for locks-of-love and it is about shoulder length now. I would love some creative ideas on how to style it!

Happy New Year to you Jo! I can't wait to see what your blog brings this year. I make it part of my day to dip in and have a read - it's so very inspirational.

I started writing my blog www.buttercupdaysuk.blogspot.com in February last year and my ambition is to have just a fraction of the brilliance that your blog has ... I'm still working on it! You gave me some feedback on a post I wrote on Mother's Day. It was so lovely and did a lot to make me carry my blog forward. Thank you. x

Really random question, but looking through the hair tutorials again... do you know what eyeshadow Caroline uses? It's a sort of matt goldy peachy colour and I love it! I wear my make-up very like her but am still searching for my perfect eyeshadow. Everything loks too glittery on my!

oh my goodness, thank you for all these lovely comments! and YES to short hair tutorials! good idea, coming up :) also to quick dinner recipes and all the other fun things you have suggested. thank you!!!!!

"I actually wearing any eyeshadow for the tutorials. It's just my tinted moisturizer which was by Laura mercier. I have some peachy undertones to my skin, and I don't wear face powder on my eyelids, which allows the tinted moisturizer to stay a creamy texture. hope that helps!!"

we ought to thank YOU for such amazing posts. As a newly mum, I felt most blessed to take part in the excelent debates you promoted in your blog. It made me think about a lot of funny/important/amazing things!!!

Have a great 2012!!!I'll be here, reading from Lisbon (Portugal)ilitesem

Gorgeous blog Joanna. Love seeing what catches your eye.. and all the goodies for the little man in your life. I'd like to request a hair tutorial for women with shorter hair. I am (and have been trying to for years) growing out my hair. Its now just above my shoulders. Would love to see what you come up with for some fun 'dos. :)

I have a request for a hair tutorial!!! But how can I describe it? It's kind of an old fashioned look for long hair-- middle part-- and sort of flipped up at the base of the neck, but following the curve of the head... so if you looked at it from above, it would look sort of like you had a croissant at the nape of your neck, with the tips pointing up to your ears!!!

OMG, I'm sure you have no idea what the heck I'm trying to describe... boo hoo.

The look is sometimes combined with a circlet around the head that comes down on the forehead.

God, I saw a girl wearing this style at Crumbs bakery last week, why didn't I take a pic? It's such a timeless look and it's crying out for a hair tutorial! Ah well...

Just wanted to say that I recently got into following your blog (like just over this holiday season recent) and I love everything that you do with it! Especially seeing this recap- I hope you know not to change any of the great things you post. Hope you have a wonderful and happy new year!!

Really enjoy your blog and the photos! I would love to echo the suggestions for short-medium/shoulder-lenght hair suggestions, especially "messy hair" looks. I just moved to Paris, and my hair feels too "neat" next to all the stylish Parisiennes!